Witness waiting game in DiMasi

It turns out we will all have to continue waiting to see which Massachusetts politicians end up on the witness list in the upcoming public corruption trial of former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi.

DiMasi and two co-defendants will stand trial on April 26 on charges they conspired to steer lucrative state software contracts to a Burlington company in exchange for cash.

Despite months of speculation that the names of Gov. Deval L. Patrick, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Beacon Hill power brokers will be included on either the prosecution or defense counsels’ lists, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf recently revealed that not even he knows the answer to that question.

Acting on a motion to unseal filed by The Boston Globe, Wolf wrote that the newspaper’s request must be denied “given that no such list has been filed with the court.”